Pakistani troops killed in ambush near Afghanistan border

Pakistan military says 4 members of an armed group additionally killed in Thursday’s incident in North Waziristan.

At the very least seven Pakistani troopers have been killed in an ambush by an armed group close to the Afghan border.

Based on a army assertion launched on Friday, a Pakistani army convoy in a former stronghold of the Pakistan Taliban, recognized by the acronym TTP, close to the Afghan border was ambushed, triggering an intense shoot-out through which seven troopers and 4 members of the armed group have been killed.

The assertion stated the ambush happened on Thursday within the Isham space of North Waziristan, a district within the risky northwestern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

“Pakistan Military is set to remove the menace of terrorism and such sacrifices of our courageous troopers additional strengthen our resolve,” the assertion added.

There was no rapid declare of accountability.

The incident comes as Pakistan’s army stated on Thursday that 128 armed fighters have been killed within the area bordering Afghanistan since January.

The army acknowledged that almost 100 troopers have been killed in such assaults throughout the identical interval.

Paying tributes to the killed troopers, Pakistan’s new Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif stated Islamabad would “proceed preventing terrorism”.

North Waziristan – as soon as dubbed the “heartland of militancy” – is among the seven former semi-autonomous tribal areas in Pakistan the place the military has performed a sequence of operations since 2014 to remove the Pakistan Taliban.